On the 28th February, ten pupils from Waldegrave School for Girls went to visit Oxford University for a school trip. The trip included a talk/lesson about the course of Classics as well as asking current students questions about university life. The girls were also able to have a look around the Botanic Garden and St. Hilda's College.
The pupils that were picked to attend the visit were taken from the Gifted and Talented programme at Waldegrave School. This decision raises some arguments from other girls at the school, and even girls that went on the trip (like me), that the selection process is unfair. Pupils that are not in Gifted and Talented do not get as many opportunities as they would like such as earlier in the year the same girls that went on the Oxford trip went to the Museum of London for a Talk about women in business. Also often school trips that involve only in few pupils are selected from the top one or two sets in a subject.
The girls that are not selected are the same ones every time and only the boring, more educational, trips allow everyone to attend. Of course the school are not able to pay for everyone to go on school trips all the time, but want happened to the good old first come first serve idea.
